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Monday, April 2, 2018

100 Words a Day 1161

The heads of the merchant families met in the temple. It
was also the largest facility for forging the steel goods they relied on for
trade. They had to shout to be heard over the choir of hammer blows and the
organ-bellows that stoked the divine fires. The dvergr skilled enough to have
earned anvils in the great hall trailed dark ash wherever they went. The smithy
tasks normally performed by goblins were handled by young dvergr, specially
selected for their religious devotion and their potential as steel artisans.
The greatest among them were selected to be the steel priests.